La "laide vérité" : le rêve de Cahus revisité

doi:10.4467/20843933ST.18.002.8280

La "laide vérité" : le rêve de Cahus revisité

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title:	La "laide vérité" : le rêve de Cahus revisité
alternative title:	"The ugly truth" : Cahus’ dream revisited
author:	Gorecka-Kalita Joanna
Journal title:	Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
volume:	13
issue:	1
date of publication:	2018
pages:	15-24
ISSN:	1897-3035
eISSN:	2084-3933
DOI:	10.4467/20843933ST.18.002.8280
language:	French
Journal language:	Polish
abstract in english:	The aim of this paper is to propose an analysis of the Cahus’ Dream, a well known episode of the Perlesvaus, Arthurian romance from the 13th century, within the context of the medieval dream theories. Inspired mostly by Macrobius’ Commentary on the Dream of Scipio – fo cusing on the divinatory (or deceptive/ illusory) role of dreams – as well as by Tertullian’s and Augustine’s Christian refl ections on the relations between the soul and the sleeping body, these theories permit to shed a new light on the oneiric adventure of the squire. In fact, the author furnishes numerous clues which make it look as an insomnium or fantasma: a false, illusory dream, deprived of any deeper signifi cation. Thus, unable of uncovering some hidden, symbolic meaning, the mirage paradoxically turns out to be a material, "ugly", as the text has it, truth, blurring the border between dream and reality in a most confusing way, and setting the specific Perlesvaus tone from the very beginning of the romance.
keywords in english:	Arthurian romance, phantasm, medieval dream theories, Augustine, dream turning real, nightmare, divination
keywords in other languages:	Perlesvaus (Le Haut Livre du Graal)
number of pulisher's sheets:	0,63
affiliation:	Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Romańskiej
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper